Listening to Psyche
A Six Week Community Dream Group
with Satya Doyle Byock
Sundays | 9 - 10:30am PST / 12-1:30pm EST
November 6th- December 18th
(with a one-week break for American Thanksgiving)
Sessions will be hosted live online & same-day recordings will be provided
Certificate for Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute
“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.”
In this series, we’ll deepen our practice of listening to the living psyche through dreamwork. In each of our six sessions, Satya will host live dreamwork for one or two class members and later invite all participants to add insights through safe facilitation. Satya will also introduce some key aspects of working with dreams, and perhaps also engage in other ways of listening to psyche through synchronicity, symbols, and pattern witnessing.
We’ll begin by establishing a compassionate, permissive frame for writing down dreams and witnessing the symbol-making function of psyche. Weekly attention will be paid to creative practice around dreams, be it through writing poems or prose, painting, dancing, sculpture, or creating ritual.
Some Details about Live Dreamwork:
In each session, we’ll spend time with the dream of a group participant (or two). Those who wish to work a dream in the group setting will be invited to submit their name in advance of the live meetings. Trusting synchronicity—and past success with this process—dreamers’ names are selected at random and dreamers are notified in advance. The process invites the right dream for all of us at the right time.
With each dream, Satya supports the dreamer to settle into their body and “feel into” the dream for associations and amplification of images, inviting personal reflections and self-exploration. After engaging with the dreamer, Satya then invites the community to safely contribute insights through the “if this were my dream…” format: a safe, guided query into the way the dream impacts and resonates with others. Through witnessing and exploring each dream together, we learn more about the process of dreamwork, the symbols that arise from our own psyches, and ways of working with the dreams of others.
Note: It is not necessary to have been a part of past dream groups to register.
Course Details:
All sessions will take place online.
Recordings are shared with registrants within 24 hours of live meetings. There is no expectation that those registered attend the live gatherings.
Recordings will expire to protect the confidentiality of participants.
Each session will involve some lecture and live dreamworrk.
An online community space is available to all participants for between-session discussion and sharing.
Dates:
November 6, 13, 20
One week break for American Thanksgiving
December 4, 11, 18
Cost: Community Subscriber $175 (30% discount)*/ Non-Subscriber $250
*To receive this discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.
About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC
Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.
Register:
Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.
CEU: Participants can earn 9 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.
Recordings: Same-day recordings will be provided. Recordings will expire to protect confidentiality.
Subscribers: To receive a 30% subscriber discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.